Yup, as long as after death they realize their mistake and start believing :) . To be honest with you I actually don't think that religion per se is a bad thing and throughout human history it helped us develop and thrive but I think it outdated itself in this space age and now is more of a...
I agree that only monotheistic religions are giving black and white approach to a problem of afterlife (if any). And I also agree that morality is a separate category from any theism or religion. But as I mentioned before about half of humanity from its beginnings until modern age was...
Most popular religions nowadays are giving two choices where one`s soul can end up. I agree that there are some religions mentioning third option or multi option as an answer to posed question but that creates another problem-if religions giving two options are right than all others are wrong...
I think you are on to something here since from the beginnings of mankind until modern age there were approximately 15 billion people inhabiting this planet and at least half of them were well deep in polytheism so if any of modern age monotheistic religions is right than hell would be a very...
Well the problem is that all major religions have that black and white approach to the matter and majority of humanity nowadays falls under those religions leaving small portion of planet Earth`s population to believe in existence of a third option or multi option solutions to our problem.
Then there is something wrong with religious presumptions of what God wants from humanity since I don't think the Father would condemn His son created upon His image to eternal damnation just because he never mentioned His name or believed He exists in the first place if he is truly Love.
Is being a "good person" a religious category? If so than it is impossible to have a non-religious good person which is farfetched to say at least in my opinion.
I'm not sure how you came up with all this story of "being good"="being grateful" but OK. The person I have described is good in a sense that he is grateful to his parents and teachers and friends and family and he cannot be grateful to entity in which existence he doesn't believe but...
The person described in my question was hypothetical one but not impossible to exist. I'm sure heaven is built for "reasonably" good persons (not ideal ones) but the point of my question was to discuss what is more important for getting the main award all religions are giving (soul end up in...
Fair enough and presumably the question I have asked was posed to early christian priests and the answer you gave which was mentioned in the Bible was totally human-`no such person can exist`. The problem with that answer is that it is just a human interpretation of the divine plan and as such...
The point I was making with my question is this: All major religions are recognizing heaven and hell in some form and both are considerate as punishment and reward for ones soul for following religion`s teachings. In the same time all religions are teaching morality and rewarding the good...
If a person is an atheist and he had lived his life as a good, honest and hardworking person, always helping other people, loving his family and friends and not having evil thoughts about anyone or anything and eventually he dies-my question is: where does his soul goes-to the heaven or to hell?